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Charles Staats comments on ""roadmap" tag?" (8610)

Charles Staats — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:38:45 -0700

I think people would learn how the different tags are used by seeing how they are used by people who _have_ read meta.

davidac897 comments on ""roadmap" tag?" (8606)

davidac897 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:22:48 -0700

@Dror Speiser: So are you saying that the following are not suited for MO:
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/2755/a-learning-roadmap-for-representation-theory
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/33427/roadmap-to-a-proof-of-the-atiyah-singer-index-theorem-which-uses-k-theory
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/29499/yet-another-roadmap-style-request-a-second-bite-of-the-cherry
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/21552/roadmap-for-studying-arithmetic-geometry
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/28158/a-learning-roadmap-request-from-high-school-to-mid-undergraduate-studies
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/35288/undergraduate-roadmap-to-algebraic-geometry
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/1291/a-learning-roadmap-for-algebraic-geometry

@VP: Those are all the roadmap requests I could find, so any subject you don't see on that list has not had a roadmap request.

Dror Speiser comments on ""roadmap" tag?" (8604)

Dror Speiser — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:41:29 -0700

I think roadmap discussions aren't suited for MO. Especially since they are usually discussions. MO forces its interface onto the answers, so even when they are answered by professionals, usually the next answer coalesces the former. We get these fibonnaci threads... Wouldn't it be better if there was an actual site for these roadmaps? Actual diagrams with nodes of points of view, leafs of books, thorns of cutting edge papers.

VP comments on ""roadmap" tag?" (8563)

VP — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:56:41 -0700

Is there any major subject that has not yet been covered by existing roadmap requests? Or is this an invitation to create roadmap requests for roadmap requests' sake? (If so, I would strongly object.)

Michael Lugo comments on ""roadmap" tag?" (8560)

Michael Lugo — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:16:58 -0700

Most questions tagged as "reference-request" seem to be people looking for specific papers, or for proofs of specific facts. I would guess that a "roadmap-request" is a request for, well, a road map - which sequence of books or papers one can use to learn some new topic. Of course there's no reason why this isn't a reference request, but in practice there are two very different types of reference requests and it might help to give them different names.

Of course, there's the problem that people won't know what the different tags "mean" if they have meanings that are only apparent to people who read meta.

WillieWong comments on ""roadmap" tag?" (8559)

WillieWong — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:50:23 -0700

What would "roadmap-request" encompass, that is not already served by "reference-request"? (No, this is neither rhetorical nor sarcastic.)

davidac897 comments on ""roadmap" tag?" (8555)

davidac897 — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:27:55 -0700

There seem to be a lot of posts which can be classified as "roadmap requests," so I'm wondering if it would make sense to create a tag titled "roadmap-request"?